The Magazine attached to the Australian had an article just recently about the fantastic limestone cave networks under the desert…
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Crushing victories will do that. 😀 (Paging Mr Nasrallah!)
Israel ‘set to approve ceasefire with Hezbollah’ From the Oz.
It did well enough, it appears, to force a ceasefire, although I should add, I haven’t seen any cessation of…
They’d suffocate, as in most you depend on air con for air quality as well. You can’t open windows in…
2 weeks to flatten the curve!
Yes, and those are all the ‘big’ interests – big food, big wind, big solar, big pharma, big weaponry etc etc etc
Mussolini was correct in saying ‘Fascism is best described as a marriage between the corporation and the state’ … what is now clear is that it is the corporation who wears the pants!
Hayfever season has started a month early in Victoria according to a story on Neil Mitchell 3aw.
The usual grass suspects aren’t pollinating yet but pines are. The official count is still low so they’re a bit baffled.
Neil brings on a doctor and they speculate whether the coof could aggravate the sneezes like it does with asthma.
Vaccines not mentioned naturally and the callers not asked if they’ve had the coof. Wouldn’t want find out something not party line.
Fun fact – I have a picture of myself standing outside the Afghan rug shop on base in Kandahar – and it was closing down.
Sounds like a dare. The start:
Aaand that’ll do, pig. That’ll do.
New UK Health chief, a practicing Catholic, under fire for pro-life views
https://www.instagram.com/drdemetre/?hl=en
He’s taking the field study portion of monkeypox/HIV/etc transmission research rather seriously, it would seem.
Poor m0nty-fa needs to read more than the daily lefty talking points, but he still follows them blindly. Sad, low energy.
Pine pollen is a big issue. Most of the plantations near Perth have been thankfully swallowed by housing. They suck up heaps of groundwater too. And you have to drive further to dump stolen cars and bodies.
Let me guess. To a Village People soundtrack.
mUnty hasn’t done his own thinking for years.
They all have stupid lyrics. “Blinded by the light..Revved up like a deuce Another runner in the night” what?
Don McLean on American Pie: what do these lyrics mean? it means I will never have to work again.
Footy and crikkit teams continue to lose ‘unloseable’ matches.
In Mongyang, Jeff Kennett lost the unloseable 1999 election in which he was expected to romp it in for a third term despite pissing off a significant proportion of the punters.
This is certainly something Andrews wouldn’t have wanted (the Hun):
The piece says when the UFU campaigned for Andrews, there was an average 4.5% swing towards Labor in those seats.
Of course it’s extortionate by the UFU, and the fireys are extremely militant anyway – but never say never. Kennett was beaten by a beige, superficial Steve Bracks.
Raining this morning, trying to avoid bookwork, so I’m flicking around the TV channels and land on House of Dragons.
A little blonde girlie with the standard woke-smug expression is staring at a huge threatening white stag. As the stag turns to run away and a clear rear view is presented, I notice the CGI team have neglected to give the stag any balls.
A trans stag.
I still can’t help wondering: what was Sir Robert Menzies thinking when he named his creation the Stupid Fucking Liberal Party?
Please don’t assume its species.
With Mondegreens.
Indolentsays:
September 8, 2022 at 8:34 am
OPENING DAY: Highly Anticipated ‘My Son Hunter’ Movie Launch Rattles the Left
Just watched the Trailer and Dribbling Joe says to Hunter, “I want to know everything on that Lap Top that could ruin my Erection”…………….LOL
Stag balls isn’t something I look for but not surprised a MAFS groupie would.
As a Victorian I have dubbed the nutless stag ‘Matthew’
bespoke says:
September 8, 2022 at 9:30 am
Stag balls isn’t something I look for but not surprised a MAFS groupie would.
Get with the times please!
I’ve moved onto Farmer wants a Wife.
H B Bearsays:
September 8, 2022 at 9:19 am
He’s taking the field study portion of monkeypox/HIV/etc transmission research rather seriously, it would seem.
Let me guess. To a Village People soundtrack.
Nah this one mr funkypants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IslF_EyhMzg
The classic of misheard lyrics “wrapped up like a douche, another ‘rona in the night”. Funny you mentioned it, I was driving to the snow last Friday and it was on 2XL and I was singing the misheard lyrics, which make as much sense as the original ones.
There was a 90s song, I can’t remember the singer, but the lyrics were a classic. They were something like “I don’t want to see a ghost, It’s the sight that I fear most, I’d rather have a piece of toast, And watch the evening news”.
BS! The next step in the transition is Love island.
Like 4x leads to drinking G&T
It all down hill..
On This Day:
Factoid: Originally named Davo, the statue’s first release was six months earlier. The Collingwood beanie was considered a bit much by critics, so it was removed and relaunched in its more beige form.
Monty level wishcasting at the gruinaid…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/07/mar-a-lago-trump-nuclear-documents-spies
The home of a former president with a history of being enthralled by foreign autocrats, distrustful of US security services, and boastful about his knowledge of secrets, is an obvious foreign intelligence target.
“I know that national security professionals inside government, my former colleagues, [they] are shaking their heads at what damage might have been done,” John Brennan, former CIA director, told MSNBC.
“I’m sure Mar-a-Lago was being targeted by Russian intelligence and other intelligence services over the course of the last 18 or 20 months, and if they were able to get individuals into that facility, and access those rooms where those documents were and made copies of those documents, that’s what they would do.”
This Brennan?
John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) · Twitter
https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan
Mikhail Gorbachev personified bold & courageous leadership by recognizing that the Soviet system was morally bankrupt & fatally flawed. He was a noble statesman & a compassionate human being.
This is when they are described as being conservative (or ultra-conservative), so they can be conflated with conservative Christians and just plain conservatives, and therefore *hint hint*, the sort of people that make up the right.
(It is funny to reflect that, when the Soviet Union fell, the conservatives were the ones who wanted to retain communist rule.)
BS! The next step in the transition is Love island.
Don’t know that one Bespoke, is it good?
Bad news.
Laura Jays has had a haircut. Not good.
Just as the most fanatical moozleys are sometimes described by j’ismists as “ultra-conservatives”.
I am sure the Hunter Biden movie will be a roaring success, like those Ayn Rand movies a few years ago.
Or, as it is referred to at Casa Sancho, “Bimbo Wants a Farm”.
Don’t know, Gem. Just others others who have gone down that road.
willsays:
September 8, 2022 at 9:21 am
rugbyskiersays:
September 8, 2022 at 7:26 am
I’ve got a suggestion for Rabz’s next radio show – songs with stupid lyrics. Just heard Shakira on the radio singing lucky that her breasts are small and humble so you don’t confuse them with mountains.
They all have stupid lyrics. “Blinded by the light..Revved up like a deuce Another runner in the night” what?
Don McLean on American Pie: what do these lyrics mean? it means I will never have to work again.
Or as Spike Malligna (the famous typing error) once sang……………..”I’m walking backwards for Christmas, over the Irish Sea……………………”
<blockquoterugbyskier says:
September 8, 2022 at 9:37 am
They all have stupid lyrics. “Blinded by the light..Revved up like a deuce Another runner in the night” what?
The classic of misheard lyrics “wrapped up like a douche, another ‘rona in the night”. Funny you mentioned it, I was driving to the snow last Friday and it was on 2XL and I was singing the misheard lyrics, which make as much sense as the original ones.
There was a 90s song, I can’t remember the singer, but the lyrics were a classic. They were something like “I don’t want to see a ghost, It’s the sight that I fear most, I’d rather have a piece of toast, And watch the evening news”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKtrWU4zaaI
I often make the observation to Mrs HT that she likes songs that, if she listened to the lyrics, would offend her most basic life values. That stupid Uncle Cracker ear worm about “swimming in your veins like a fish in the sea” – its about infidelity, wanton lustful, deliberate infidelity.
And dont even start me on the videos. The “Life” video above she drives through lively butterfly filled fields as a crop duster sprays for, well, caterpillars. I suppose that, for a refreshing change, it’s not just porn set to music.
Denial Bespoke.
Acceptance is next.
What gin do you prefer?
Begone temptress!!
Relief.
I think Laura’s hair is just tied back.
Geebus!!
Sadly, I’m old enough and I spent enough time in the USA to make sense of that line/song.
Basically, fast cars and fast women sung in (now outdated) US slang.
KD at 9:07.
I wonder what happens when the chemtrails hit the clouds.
The ones with anti-gravity matter.
Or, as it is referred to at Casa Sancho, “Bimbo Wants a Farm”.
More than a few of those but there’s a few good girls in the mix.
I reckon the dairy farmer from Kyabram should pick the Vet nurse. Not a head turner but strikes me as genuine kind girl. The bloke said so himself. Looks fade but nice and kind generally sticks around.
They all have stupid lyrics. “Blinded by the light..Revved up like a deuce Another runner in the night” what?
Don McLean on American Pie: what do these lyrics mean? it means I will never have to work again.
Macarthur Park by Richard Harris has to take the cake……………………………
Feast Day of The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Songs to Mary, the Holy Mother of God.
A collection of 10 Marian Hymns and Songs in honour of Mother Mary.
(with time stamps)
The savings on AI and brucellosis injections alone would be worth it.
Knuckle Draggersays:
September 8, 2022 at 9:43 am
On This Day:
1504 – Michelangelo’s David is unveiled in Piazza della Signoria in Florence
Factoid: Originally named Davo, the statue’s first release was six months earlier. The Collingwood beanie was considered a bit much by critics, so it was removed and relaunched in its more beige form.
The stolen item Davo is carrying on his left shoulder has never been definitively identified.
There was likely a sign written in Pashto with big bright letters “Closing Down since 1972!”
I see what you did …“sigh”
That song was surely released as an IQ test by a marketing company.
Didn’t Donna Summers do a disco version?
The savings on AI and brucellosis injections alone would be worth it.
Looks like a good milker too.
Aaand that’ll do, pig. That’ll do.
Donkey!
In love’s hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants
Work to that out.
Work to that out.
My cryptic clue.
That’s my excuse anyway.
As a Victorian I have dubbed the nutless stag ‘Matthew’
Doe, a deer, a female deer…
there’s quite a nice reproduction in the courtyard of the Ringling museum of art in Sarasota Florida, of all places.
Quite a surprising site if you ever get down that way – the estate has a Mediterranean revival / Venetian Gothic mansion with marble steps down to the waterfront, and there’s also a carny museum. Smells like cabbage.
Kalea Selmon, the Director of Diversity and Inclusion at Maryvale Preparatory School* in Baltimore, gave a presentation…
In a video of part of her presentation, Selmon claims that “BIPOC spaces are sacred.”
Selmon then goes on to say “It’s necessary for BIPOC students to have space away from white gaze and that it is absolutely okay to give black and brown students things you’re not giving white children because the white children are fine.”
* Fees $22k +
You can’t always tell by the size of the bag.
I was thinking about that the other day.
No, not that.
Cattle management and monitoring.
Some more technologically advanced dairy farmers collect data on their cows through individual electronic ear tags (an invention of Klaus Schwab).
I don’t know if they do it, but it strikes me that you could extend it to measure milk volume and sample for butterfat and protein by individual animal.
Gruinaid celebrates racist graffitti/art
About as subtle as der sturmer
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/sep/08/revenge-fantasies-for-colonised-australia-ryan-presleys-vivid-violent-tableaux
FMD; fat woke librarian stocks children’s section with porn about gay sex practices, parents object and she now sues the poor bastards for defamation; no Republicans support the parents.
UK BANS Covid Vaccines for ALL kids under 12
Authorities Afraid of Criminal Liability for Vaccination?
Apparently the nucvlear secrets the fbi raid on Mar-a-lago exposed consist of letter from the fat little mutant from NK agreeing to reduce his nuklear program; according to Bonginohttps://rumble.com/v1j1wcr-the-deep-state-drops-another-fake-bombshell-ep.-1846-the-dan-bongino-show.html?mref=6zof&mc=dgip3&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The+Dan+Bongino+Show&ep=2 who is in the know. The doj/fbi know this and are selectively leaking to swamp media who jazz it up with bullshit all in time for the mid terms; while the doj/fbi try to generate an obstruction charge against Trump.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
This is beyond trolling. Now they’re just openly fucking with the West.
The bulk of the lyrics are references to bands (after the time of Buddy Holly) cast as destructive forces, occasionally rising to near apocalyptic.
Don is making a point that the rock music had become unwholesome and socially corrosive, and lamenting what had been lost (this last bit in the last bit of the song).
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@RealAlexRubi
Tucker Carlson covers my @TheGrayzoneNews report exposing the Pentagon’s invitation of multiple Ukrainian Nazis to Disney World, where comedian Jon Stewart honored a former fascist militant for his “personal example.”
How Blatant Anti-White Racism Won Acceptance in Elite America
Fauci and Jean-Pierre ordered to turn over emails sent to social media companies: Judge
How China Is Handling COVID Nowadays
When you have your own personal security team – paid for by the stupid taxpayers of course – what need is there for police?
Report: Hillary Clinton Nonprofit Gave $75,000 to Defund the Police Group
Tucker Carlson focusing very closely on Hunter Biden’s nine-inch hog.
Gez – I’d go with coof itself on this one. Covid infects nasal cells first, apparently. Which means T cells will be getting excited in your nose trying to find and kill coof viruses just as pollen starts to arrive. Voilà: worse hay fever.
I think the vaccine might contribute since it seems to reset inherent immunity to coof and other coronaviruses. The data appears to show vaccinated people just keep on getting it once the antibodies have decayed two or three months after the jabs. If so, yeah, hay fever should be getting worse because vaccinated people’s T cells keep on being excited to kill invaders in their noses.
I still haven’t had either the vax or the bug. Not noticeably in the latter case anyway.
Meme;……………………What kind of drugs do you think he was injected with to be able to give this performance?
No Need The Jab The Children As This Should Do It
94% of Baby Food Contains Toxic Metals
“The Food and Drug Administration does nothing to protect the American public. We have yet another revelation of products intended for infants containing toxic substances. Healthy Babies Bright Futures’ (HBBF) conducted a study of 288 products, including over 7,000 from other previously published studies. “We found no evidence to suggest that homemade purees and family brands are generally safer, with lower metal levels, than store-bought baby food,” HBBF warned.
Even WebMD is reporting on this crime. Around 94% of store and homemade baby foods contained at least one toxic heavy metal. The organization warns against consuming puffs, rice cakes, crisped rice cereal, and brown rice when cooked without additional water. These items have actual arsenic within them, and both children and adults are at risk. Yes, the FDA approved these items. In fact, arsenic was found in 68% of store-bought food and 72% of family homemade food. Lead was detected in 90% of store-bought food and 80% of family homemade purees.
This means that almost ALL available “food” for babies contains toxins.
The American Academy of Pediatrics warned, “Toxic metal exposure can be harmful to the developing brain. It’s been linked with problems with learning, cognition, and behavior.” Perhaps this is a variable for why autism and other problems have spiked within the US.
The proposed solution:
“The FDA should establish and enforce protective limits for heavy metals in all foods consumed by babies and young children. Heavy metal contamination spans all the food aisles of the grocery store; FDA’s safety standards must as well. Standards extending beyond the baby food aisle would also encompass foods eaten during pregnancy , a crucial time for lowering toxic metal exposures.”
I am sure many thought that the FDA was already protecting the American public against ingesting contaminated products. Everyone was so eager for the FDA to approve the COVID vaccines when, in reality, the organization is bought and paid for by lobbyists.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/94-of-baby-food-contains-toxic-metals/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Lathe of the week south of Sydney:
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/waterfall/other-tools-diy/metal-lathe/1300849271
m0ntysays:
September 8, 2022 at 11:05 am
Tucker Carlson focusing very closely on Hunter Biden’s nine-inch hog.
Mine is 12 inches long but I don’t use it as a rule. It frightens the Left as well.
Unlimited hot showers? Bwahahaha…
Of course German pollies don’t want the punters to have showers at all.
Maybe Intourist should exclude smelly Deutschen from the offer.
No vax nor bug for me but since the bushfires my allergies are shocking. Sinus irritation causing throbbing tooth nerves.
Cassie
I don’t agree with everything you say, but you’re the best gal here. 🙂
Go threading ffs.
Phantom pain!
You try and tell that to the young people of today – and they won’t understand you.
Sure it was a mistake.
Scoop: Dems’ accidental GOP data mine
https://www.axios.com/2022/09/08/snap-voter-data-republican-democrats
Las Vegas Democrat investigated over the murder of a journalist who uncovered a lot of the shit he was up to.
https://www.8newsnow.com/news/police-confirm-search-at-county-officials-home-in-connection-with-journalists-homicide-investigation/
Probably will be made out to be Trump’s fault though.
Nie vir blankes nie, net vir swartes…
BIPOC, aren’t we missing some letters in this new alphabet soup, can’t we just use the pocket skin colour chart instead?
Ukrainian troops paint dire picture of Kherson fighting
A Post report on the ‘counter-offensive’ attempt comes ahead of a weapons suppliers meeting in Germany
As Kiev has banned journalists from the frontlines of the ‘offensive’ in Kherson Region, the Post sent a reporter to a hospital in the rear area, where wounded Ukrainian soldiers told a harrowing tale of fighting against the odds. Wednesday’s piece about plucky underdogs who just need more weapons, ammunition, and equipment appeared just ahead of a US-led meeting of Ukraine’s arms suppliers in Ramstein, Germany.
Soldiers with “severed limbs, shrapnel wounds, mangled hands and shattered joints” told the Post about the “lopsided disadvantages” the Ukrainian army faces on the Kherson front. The Russians have more and better artillery, drones that can fly with impunity a kilometer high, and counter-battery radars that can call fire on Ukrainians’ heads within minutes, according to the US outlet.
Russian troops even hack and hijack Ukrainian drones, which “drift away helplessly behind enemy lines,” the paper said.
“We lost five people for every one they did,” Igor, a 30-year-old platoon leader with a back injury, told the Post.
“When we turn on mobile phones or radio, they can recognize our presence immediately,” another soldier named Denis said. “And then the shooting starts.”
“They were just hitting us all the time,” said Aleksandr, who had lost an arm in the fighting. “If we fire three mortars, they fire 20 in return.”
Some fella is driving around shooting people in Memphis, apparently he’s streaming it on Fakebook.
FMD.
https://www.9news.com.au/world/police-man-driving-around-memphis-shooting-at-people/2bec5c1c-ae6f-4451-8a00-04f53759e9d2
BIPOC, aren’t we missing some letters in this new alphabet soup, can’t we just use the pocket skin colour chart instead?
Done thing like this?
And every letter gets a parade!
Not Enough LGBT Events? UK City to Introduce Another Pride March Just for Trans People (7 Sep)
Ok, that means one march each for every letter in LGBTQIA2S+. And the 57 genders should get a parade each, surely. Birmingham also has a lot of people of a certain religion, so that’s a few more marches depending on how many sects there are in the city. Might be good to keep all of them separate, and separate from the qwerties though, or there could be people accidentally falling off of tall buildings.
Something *
the same can be said for australian equivs
he must be one of the red sermonites
Lots of canola in this year too.
A great season means it’s flowering for a long time.
well you would buy DJI drones… made in china
His name is Ezekial Kelly. He’s a 19 year old black, male, repeat offender, out on parole (Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…) .
In February 2020, he was charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder, possession of a firearm and reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon. A grand jury indicted on him on those charges in June 2020. He pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in April 2021 and was sentenced to 3 years in prison. They let him out in 2.
So far today he has killed at least one and shot as many as 5 people. Ah, seems the cops just caught him. Probably be out on bail and back at tha crib by midnight.
His mum claims he is a good boy and was on his way to his night school seminary classes (joking, sort of).
My entries for misheard lyrics,
Bonnie Tyler’s “It’s a hard egg”.
Elton John’s “Hold me close Tony Danza”
Madonna’s “like a virgin touched for the 31st time’s
ACDC “Dirty deeds done with sheep” (no 1 son)
Unk “Australians all eat ostriches” ( no 2 son)
OldOzzie – That’s from RT, ie. state owned Russian news. There’re oodles of Ukrainian news stories saying exactly the same thing about Russian troops as this RT story says about Ukrainian troops. None of them from either side are at all believable.
I suggest ignoring the MSM of all sides and look at primary sources like the NASA FIRMS data.
m0ntysays:
September 8, 2022 at 11:05 am
Tucker Carlson focusing very closely on Hunter Biden’s nine-inch hog.
Dickless is jealous.
J.C:
Yes, and they did it all to themselves.
who did it better
Bob Hawke – ‘By 1990 No Child will be Living in Poverty’.
I smile at Malachy McCourt’s “A monk swimming”.
I smell a rat in the UFU campaigning against TaliDan in November.
It’s about the legislation for a no proof cancer compensation scheme extending to non firefighters who attend fires.
Dan standing strong.
The UFU will support candidates who support their position.
Dan’s not worried about the Libs.
This may be some way of splintering green votes and getting preferences flowing back to labor in seats that the greens could grab.
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
September 8, 2022 at 12:31 pm
Ukrainian troops paint dire picture of Kherson fighting
OldOzzie – That’s from RT, ie. state owned Russian news. There’re oodles of Ukrainian news stories saying exactly the same thing about Russian troops as this RT story says about Ukrainian troops. None of them from either side are at all believable
BON – rt.com is quoting washington post
and re None of them from either side are at all believable
Yep agree, that is why I like to read both sides – Russia seems to be belting the Crap out of Europe & West on sanctions – Energy Problems Anyone?
Russia seems to be belting the Crap out of Europe & West on sanctions – Energy Problems Anyone?
“We’ve Lost Nothing” – Putin Warns Western Elites’ “Sanctions Fever” Will See European People “Freeze”
Instead, he said the blowback from EU and US-led sanctions and attempts at decoupling from Russian fossil fuels is wrecking lives in the West. “Now we are seeing how production and jobs in Europe are closing one after another,” Putin said, stressing that this is happening as “Western elites, who would not, or even cannot acknowledge objective facts.”
Weren’t there some weasel words further down the track, about “No child need be living in poverty, if they are, it’s all their parents fault?”
Details emerge of Canada mass stabbing suspect Myles Sanderson’s extensive criminal history
Sanderson, 32, and his brother Damien, are accused of killing 10 people and wounding 18 others in the attacks that spread across the James Smith Cree Nation and into the nearby town of Weldon. Damien’s body was found Monday near the attacks, and police were investigating whether his brother killed him.
Canadian legal authorities are stunned and say “If only there was some clue that he might do such a thing…” /s
Sanderson died of self-inflicted wounds after being arrested.
World Economic Forum Futurist: ‘We Just Don’t Need the Vast Majority of the Population’
Listen to the interview in its entirety and note how often Harari, unprompted, compares humans to animals – monkeys, cows, etc.
The elites view us as an industrial resource, not peer citizens
Harari continues:
“If you go back to the middle of the 20th century — and it doesn’t matter if you’re in the United States with Roosevelt, or if you’re in Germany with Hitler, or even in the USSR with Stalin — and you think about building the future, then your building materials are those millions of people who are working hard in the factories, in the farms, the soldiers. You need them. You don’t have any kind of future without them.”
And here we arrive at the crux of the issue: we’re outdated machinery in their eyes.
“Now, fast forward to the early 21st century when we just don’t need the vast majority of the population because the future is about developing more and more sophisticated technology, like artificial intelligence [and] bioengineering.”
Harari explains that your only utility to the technocracy now is as a data reservoir:
“Most people don’t contribute anything to [artificial intelligence and bioengineering], except perhaps for their data, and whatever people are still doing which is useful, these technologies increasingly will make redundant and will make it possible to replace the people.”
The elites view themselves as Gods, bestowing and extinguishing life at will
Well yes, I suppose if there’s an outlet less believable than RT then WaPo would be that. 😀
It’s a pretty good rule of thumb that if one side is saying anything about the other side then it’s silly rubbish. Goes both ways. And if they’re saying something about whatever heroic thing they themselves did yesterday that’s silly rubbish too. I don’t bore Cats with this stuff, but I see plenty of it when I’m scanning the sources each morning.
Actually I quite like RT. I just ignore anything there that is related to the war in any way. Ditto most everything the Western MSM says about glorious heroic soldiers of Ukraine striding manfully eastwards in shining triumph.
Albanese government starts to unwind Coalition’s class actions reforms
The Albanese government has started winding back Coalition reforms of the class actions regime by removing regulatory oversight for litigation founders before the likely introduction of contingency fees.
Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones and Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus have released draft regulations that mean funders will no longer need to hold an Australian financial services licence (AFSL) or comply with the rules for managed investment schemes (MIS).
Those steps were taken in August 2020, and followed changes to continuous disclosure laws that made it difficult for shareholders to sue companies and directors unless they misled the market with “knowledge, recklessness or negligence”.
Although funders and leading class actions firm Maurice Blackburn welcomed the news, those who defend claims said it was a backward step. The Coalition said it followed a pattern of Labor rewarding some of its biggest donors.
Mr Jones has invited submissions on the new draft regulations by September 30, but made it clear that MIS requirements were on the way out after a Federal Court ruling in favour of litigation funder LCM Finance in June.
In the LCM case, the appeal court overturned the funding in Brookfield Multiplex (2010) that class actions, backed by litigation funders, were MIS for the purposes of corporations law.
Mr Jones said it was “regulation gone mad”.
“The proposed new regulations are instead drafted to facilitate access to justice rather than the previous Treasurer’s cynical efforts to hamper Australians’ access to funding for class actions which he ushered through under the cover of COVID-19,” he said.
‘Not fit for purpose’
The explanatory statement for the draft bill hints at further reform in saying “the regulatory regime in the [Corporations] Act for regulating litigation funding schemes is not fit for purpose”.
“Specifically, the MIS and AFSL regimes were not designed or intended to regulate the litigation funding industry…
“The regulations bring arrangements for litigation funding schemes in line with arrangements for other types of litigation funding schemes (ie insolvency litigation funding schemes) or litigation funding arrangements defined in the Corporations Regulations, which are already exempt from the Act’s MIS regime, AFSL requirements, Part 7.9 product disclosure requirements [in the Corporations Act] and anti-hawking provisions.”
Mr Jones and Mr Dreyfus said the government was considering the Australian Law Reform Commission’s report on litigation funding, tabled in 2019, which made 24 recommendations including contingency fees, common fund orders and enhanced powers for the courts.
Commonwealth legislation giving law firms the right to charge contingency fees would help the Federal Court stem the flow of class action filings to the Supreme Court of Victoria since it introduced contingency fees in 2020.
Under the current rules for all other jurisdictions, a law firm can only recover its professional fees and disbursements. In Victoria, they can now seek an alternative order for a percentage of the payout, a path that allows bigger firms such as Maurice Blackburn to compete with funders and run claims.
Shadow attorney-general Julian Leeser said the new regulation followed a pattern.
“Labor’s three biggest donors are the unions, the industry super funds and class action law firms,” Mr Leeser said.
“The first actions of the Albanese Government has been to reduce accountability and transparency in relation to each.
“Despite its virtue signalling, this is another example that shows Labor has no integrity on integrity.”
Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris discussing the decline in the West in general, and Europe in particular (20 mins.).
Going for broke
Christoforou is amazed that what took hundreds of years to build could be destroyed in just two years.
Peter Kay, an English comedian, did a show on misheard song lyrics which is a good laugh, but it does mean you’ll always hear the wrong lyrics for Sister Sledge’s We Are Family “just let me staple the vicar, we’re giving love in a femidom” and Shania Twain’s That Don’t Impress Me Much “I can’t believe you kiss your cock at night”.
KD earlier on Indolent’s daily link to the Daily Exposé.
Uh-huh.
Chemtrails.
But wait.
There’s more.
Yep.
5G.
Further on in the sciency sounding (but not at all sciency) word salad, we get a dose of nano-particles.
But not nano-wrigglers, which was a little disappointing.
But we do have the trifecta of chemtrails, 5G and nano particles.
Should we mock this?
Why, yes.
Yes we should.
“Biden named FEMA’s Robert Fenton as the White House National Monkeypox Response Coordinator and Dr. Demetre Daskalakis as the White House National Monkeypox Response Deputy Coordinator.” .
“Demetre Daskalakis, a leading public health expert, is currently Director of the CDC Division of HIV Prevention. Widely known as a national expert on health issues affecting the LGBGQIA+ communities, his clinical practice has focused on providing care for the underserved LGBTQIA+ communities. He previously oversaw management of infectious diseases for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, one of the largest departments in the nation – including in serving as incident commander for the City’s COVID-19 response.” the White House said.
Here is Dr. Daskalakis on ‘casual Friday’?
The Biden Regime is full of perverts and weirdos.
Recall, Biden’s Assistant Health Secretary Dr. “Rachel” Levine and his sidekick gender fluid pup handler Sam Brinton attended the French Ambassador’s Bastille Day party together over the summer.
and
Newly hired DOE employee Sam Brinton is a “non-binary” drag queen into “kink” with “they/them” pronouns.
Brinton is also a “pup handler” – Yikes
As opposed to the ‘Guardium’ horse which is clearly a stallion!
OldOzzie – I expect a monkeypox outbreak in the Biden cabinet in no time at all.
what the hell is a ….. no, never mind I don’t want know
Court: Fauci, Biden Officials Must Cough Up Records Of Collusion With Big Tech To Shush Dissenters
A U.S. district court judge issued a ruling on Tuesday that requires Chief Medical Adviser to the President Anthony Fauci, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, and other key public health officials to turn over all external communications with Big Tech companies. The ruling is based upon a lawsuit filed against top-ranking Biden administration officials by Missouri and Louisiana Attorneys General Eric Schmitt and Jeff Landry for “colluding with social media companies to censor free speech.”
Writing for the Western District of Louisiana Court, Judge Terry A. Doughty noted how the plaintiffs “are entitled to external communications by Jean-Pierre and Dr. Fauci in their capacities as White House Press Secretary and Chief Medical Advisor to the President to third-party social media platforms” and ordered that both officials “shall provide answers to
the Plaintiff’s interrogatories and document requests within twenty-one (21) days from the date
of [the] order.”
In the ruling, Doughty also mandated that several prominent officials with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) must “provide responses to Plaintiffs’ expedited discovery requests” regarding communications with social media companies within 21 days, including “HHS’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Engagement, the head of HHS’s Digital Engagement Team, the Deputy Director of the office of Communications in HRSA, and HHS’s Deputy Digital Director.”
“Up until this point, the Department of Justice has refused to cooperate with our requests for discovery from top officials in the Biden Administration under the guise of ‘executive privilege.’ Today, the Court entered an order that requires that the federal government turn over the records we’ve long requested,” Schmitt said in a statement. “The American people deserve answers on how the federal government has colluded with social media companies to censor free speech on these major platforms. We will continue to fight to uncover more of this vast censorship enterprise.”
keeping in character with the old sniffer, do we know its pronouns?
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
September 8, 2022 at 12:48 pm
Bob Hawke – ‘By 1990 No Child will be Living in Poverty’.
Weren’t there some weasel words further down the track, about “No child need be living in poverty, if they are, it’s all their parents fault?”
And what about those billions and billions of trees to be planted. Net Zero anyone?
Always curious about Alex the Seal, myself.
John Connor II
September 8, 2022 at 1:25 pm · Reply
Switzerland begins arresting citizens who use too much heating
People in Switzerland face arrest and a possible 3-year prison sentence if they use too much heating this winter.
Under strict new rules, buildings that use gas heating systems are restricted to 19°C, hot water can only be heated up to 60°C, and radiant heaters are completely outlawed.
It will also be illegal to heat swimming polls and saunas. ??
Depending on the severity of the violation and the individual’s economic situation, fines will range from 30 to 3,000 Swiss francs ($30 to $3,050), while people could also be imprisoned for up to three years.
Utility companies and larger businesses would face even more severe penalties for breaking the energy rationing rules.
Despite the brazenly authoritarian restrictions, Economy Minister Guy Parmelin asserted, “We are not a police state,” although he acknowledged police would perform “spot checks” to try to catch violators.
https://summit.news/2022/09/07/swiss-face-up-to-3-years-in-prison-for-violating-heating-rules/
Say after me “vaccines are safe and effective” “we are not a police state”
“I’m in for 30 years for murder.
What are you in for mate?”
“Using a bar radiator…”
??
Turtlehead, is there any possibility you can just fuck off and stop commenting on stuff that I post. I don’t need nor want you agreeing with me as it doesn’t matter to me one way or another. I find it off-putting. Seriously, just fuck off.
RBA chief Philip Lowe
Delivering his annual Anika Foundation address, Dr Lowe reiterated his previous message that more rate rises would be needed to bring inflation under control, but suggested the central bank board could be near the point of slowing the pace of rate rises.
“We are conscious that there are lags in the operation of monetary policy and that interest rates have increased very quickly. And we recognise that, all else equal, the case for a slower pace of increase in interest rates becomes stronger as the level of the cash rate rises,” he said.
Which is walking back the RBA statement from only TWO DAYS ago when they raised rates.
FMD, zero credibility.
Phil Lowe, you got to go !
FMD, zero credibility.
Driving with one foot on the accelerator and one foot on the brake.
Societal collapse will occur when we reach peak incompetence.
You can count on one hand globally the politicians and bureaucrats that are competent.
hot water can only be heated up to 60°C
If you have a hot water tank that is below 80, all you’re doing is breeding bugs. FMD.
Poverty is statistically defined – the lowest decile of income or some percentage of median income etc. In short, poverty will always be there because those statistics can always be calculated. If we somehow increased spending power across the board so that the people with the lowest income could afford the lifestyle of the current middle class they would still be calculated to be living on poverty.
If the Silver Bodgie instead meant no child should live in a rented tumbledown eating stale crusts and wearing ragged clothes rejected by Vinnies, then I think he ought to have sort of ‘zoomed out’ so to speak and looked at the rest of the house. I would expect there to be some shabby parents puffing durries and slurping grog all day, before heading off to the club to play the pokies.
I would wager the main problem was not that people did not have enough income, but simply that they were lazy feckless people who made easy but bad choices and lacked as sense of responsibility – as malaise even more widespread and even protected now (because they are miserable it would be cruel to expect them to do something about it).
Australian 2 year bond rallies 16bps to 2.90% in one of the biggest daily moves in 2022.
Yep, credibility galore.
RBA joins Treasury in the trashed institutions bin. Getting pretty crowded in there.
Bern
Lowe is worse than useless. The only problem now is that if he leaves, the Liars will be appointing a RBA chair. Imagine. Just imagine, Shane Wand as their candidate. Sure, it low odds but not zero. 🙂
these technologies increasingly will make redundant and will make it possible to replace the people
Has this tool ever used any of the newer Microsoft products? We’re not going forwards, we’re going backwards, the general glitchiness and shitness is only increasing.
So if you followed the RBA’s commentary for the last 12-18 months:
1) During 2021 you wouldn’t have fixed your rate at 2% for 3 years (now 5.5% to 6% depending on your credit);
2) As recently as this week you might have been fixing your rate ahead of continued rate hikes, but now Lowe is stepping back from that.
Sure never strap on too much debt.
But what are the punters meant to do when the RBA is pulling this kind of shit.
Myles Sanderson had 59 prior criminal convictions
Prior criminal activity is an awesome predictor of future criminal activity.
If Murphy can be appointed to the High Court you wouldn’t bet against Wayne Goosesteen being appointed as Governor of the RBA. At the moment there wouldn’t be any reputational damage.
And the ozzie slowly craters unable to hold onto any rally even in the 67 cents range.
If China’s economy heads lower -the construction sector is 30% of the Chinese economy with a potential collapse, Europe falters due to Greta inspired energy policies it wouldn’t surprise if the currency goes to the high 50s.
The Chinks aren’t saving Australia this time.
Bern,
A small edit from the time machine
Tell me that doesn’t frighten the living life out of you.
Lowe is worse than useless. The only problem now is that if he leaves, the Liars will be appointing a RBA chair. Imagine. Just imagine, Shane Wand as their candidate. Sure, it low odds but not zero. ?
Gotta have some where to parachute KKK, you know.
Bring Dr Wand on (I’m sure he’s got an honorary one from somewhere by now).
I want kero thrown on the burning turd RBA as soon as possible.
The federal Libs have had their people sounds with their mouths resembling goodly words over the past few days, such as Ley and Cash.
I wonder if it is a strategy that they are all women?
They can’t. Senior mining dude explained that their expectation was China’s demand for iron ore would complete its installed inventory of steel, which they originally pegged it to the mid 20s.
Installed inventory means that they would begin behaving like a developed nation with respect to steel demand. Developed nations recycle 75% of their steel needs and 25% is made up of iron ore. My bet is China has reached and is past this point in abundance by the looks of their construction industry.
The expectation is that there will be an international, female appointed as the next RBA chair.
Being the first outsider appointed ever.
Rosie:
According to the video, the problem is “Unreliable coal power which is driving up prices.”
One day, the bill for these lies will come due, and I, for one, will have no sympathy as the house of bullshit comes down on their heads.
Sure, which is Shayne Wand who’s transitioned.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced a staffing boost for Ambulance Victoria to address the critical staff shortages across the state.
As part of the move, each Ambulance will be legally required to have a Diversity and Inclusion officer on board to ensure that no discrimination is taking place during treatment and that white men are excluded from call outs.
“The hospital system will benefit greatly from this and call out times will be significantly reduced,” Andrews said.
“There will be penalties for patients who misgender or use the incorrect pronouns of staff and we will be checking social media posts. Diversity officers may decide to deny treatment if they believe there has been hate speech.”
Andrews says he is also looking at importing skilled paramedics from the subcontinent to fill any further gaps, given their ultra-high standard of care in the third world.
This person needs to be stopped now as he is a Lunatic.
So he wants to do the proles nice and slowly.
The expectation is that there will be an international, female appointed as the next RBA chair.
Being the first outsider appointed ever.
That’s all we need. A chair. And I’m sure that the chair would do a better job.
OldOzziesays:
September 8, 2022 at 12:51 pm
World Economic Forum Futurist: ‘We Just Don’t Need the Vast Majority of the Population’
Listen to the interview in its entirety and note how often Harari, unprompted, compares humans to animals – monkeys, cows, etc.
The elites view us as an industrial resource, not peer citizens
Harari is a gay vegan and would make good pig food.
Bruce O’Newk:
One way to get past the Authorities blocking news about the extent and distribution of the (and let’s be honest here…) the blackouts and plundering of the scarce electrical resource is to take photos of our cities from tall buildings, drones, etc. Because there’s no way the authorities aren’t going to lie about the apportionment of the supply.
Some fella is driving around shooting people in Memphis
His name is Ezekial Kelly. He’s a 19 year old black, male,
repeat offender, out on parole (Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…)… aspiring rapper…
I can imagine him being summoned to discuss his appointment and by way bolstering his case he will bring a manila folder containing a now tattered and wrinkled copy of the article, from whatever European economic magazine it was, describing him as the world’s greatest treasurer.
There may also be a page which he, with characteristic misunderstanding, cut out from an encyclopedia which reads “The swan is a magnificent and graceful creature with a long neck” and which he will pass across the table while desperately craning his neck left and right.
It would not have been a bad thing if we had stretched his neck, but such are out degenerate times.
Well bless their little hearts.
Play puts the public bathroom centre stage in gender discussion
…
Alone in the toilets, Rosie, a transgender woman, is under threat because times have changed.
“Before, I’d go to the women’s bathroom to escape the potential fists in the men’s,” Rosie says. “But now, the choice feels between a fist or a hug that sinks its claws in.”
Overflow, which opens at Darlinghurst Theatre on Friday, concentrates its action in a nightclub toilet to underline how public bathrooms have become a battleground in the fight for transgender acceptance and equality.
….
Overflow is also the first Australian main-stage work presented by an all-trans and gender-diverse team, from the writer to the stage manager. A community engagement team is working with trans communities to help people feel safe coming to the theatre.
Ha!
I just realised I had been misreading Shane Wand as Wayne Swan.
How embarrassment.
rosie:
I wonder what happened to the cultures that were there before?
Just faint echos of the past being swept into the dustbins of history by the Left.
Imagine. Just imagine, Shane Wand as their candidate. Sure, it low odds but not zero. ?
Wayne Swann has financial experience and is looking for a new gig.
Bruce O’Newk:
Testing:
Monkeypox.
Because lets face it, gay and weird people have always been excluded from the world of theater.
Its time they were represented at their true levels in the theatrical community as a whole.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ar7vovnH5I
He’ll never make the screen
He’ll never make the Sweeney
Be that movie queen
He’s too busy hitting the Vaseline
So who is Shane?
Rotten – surely your post is a quote from an Australian Babylon Bee? Or is it all your own work?
Harari is a gay vegan and would make good pig food.
My go to statement:
They hate you and want you dead.
(The pig would get diarrhea)
from whatever European economic magazine it was, describing him as the world’s greatest treasurer.
Euromoney.
Euromoney was going downhill anyway, but I don’t think it ever recovered from that buffoonery.
That would be yer 4th turning then….
And he’ll step back from that step back. I can’t see crude going much lower from here – maybe mid 70’s? And then there’s every possibility a year from now it will be $120+. Nat Gas will likely be in a similar move. That will give inflation another step up and thwart any chances of meaningfully cutting rates. Sure the rate and size of IR increases will slow/reduce but expect rates to settle higher than here for a long long time. Nearly 40 years of IR declines are over. It’s a new paradigm.
Boomerang Kids
From Martin Armstrong –
“Boomerang kids is a term for those who moved out of their parents’ home only to return. The number of young adults who were forced to move back home reached historic highs in 2020 when the pandemic began. In fact, three in ten Gen Zers (18-25) moved back home with their parents during the pandemic as school campuses closed down. Around 18% of younger millennials (26-34) and 17% of older millennials (35-41) also moved back in with mom and dad. However, a recent report shows that two-thirds of young adults in the US who moved back home during the pandemic have yet to leave the nest.
Housing and rental costs are at historic highs and continue to rise. Inflation is soaring, rates are rising, and the youth is struggling. The demographic that should be starting families is financially priced out of doing so. Around 31% of boomerang kids said their top focus is saving for a down payment on a home, and nearly 30% of those who did move out managed to purchase a home. Around 39% of those who moved back home said they were focused on paying off debt.
About 73% of those who did move out after the pandemic were only able to rent. Unsurprisingly, states with the highest cost of living host the largest number of boomerang kids. Around 21.6% of adult children live at home in Hawaii, followed by New Jersey and Florida, which host 20.7% and 20.1%, respectively.
Young adults can no longer afford the American dream. Nearly three years after the pandemic, most young adults who moved back home have been unable to leave. Housing costs are usually the biggest expense of any household, and the youth simply cannot afford to buy in this market. This is why the birth rate is steadily declining, and the future workforce will be limited.”
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/north_america/americas-current-economy/boomerang-kids/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
For too long the cruel homophobes of musical and other theatre have oppressed the gentle bum bandit/Australian community! How much longer are we to tolerate the cruel jibes of the unwashed at the sapphic sisterhood.
How can we liberate our power bottoms and the front bottoms if they are forced to cringe in fear every time a stage curtain swishes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yC7HwPh6Es
Old School Conservativesays:
September 8, 2022 at 2:56 pm
Rotten – surely your post is a quote from an Australian Babylon Bee? Or is it all your own work?
It is of course satire but who knows what could happen between now and the Victorian State Election in November………..
https://www.ezfka.com/2022/09/08/andrews-solves-hospital-crisis-by-ensuring-each-ambulance-crew-has-one-diversity-and-inclusion-officer/
Taking the duck for a walk…
With the new Swiss rules on hot water, look for an outbreak of Legionella over winter.
How important is central bank policy?
Nothing…………everything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6aPgA5549g
indolent et al:
Does anyone know why this refusing to capitalise the start of a sentence is happening?
Or is it just another trendy affectation to differentiate themselves from the rest of the market?
Because it ain’t working – it just looks like another bit of intellectual wankery.
Jason Momoa shaves his hair for a cause
The “Dune” actor posted a video Monday on his verified Instagram account in which he is shown getting his long head of hair shaved.
Momoa also shows off his cut braids and explains that he cut his hair to bring awareness to single-use plastics.
“I’m tired of using plastic bottles, we gotta stop,” he says in the video. “Plastic forks, all that s**t goes into our land, goes into our ocean. I’m here in Hawaii right now, and just seeing things in our ocean, it’s just so sad.”
It doesn’t actually say anything about single use plastics – whatever he was thinking may have been wrong or right. As an actor there is no reason to assume he is anyway more informed than some magazine articles.
The only reason it is reported is because he cut his hair off.
That, and tempting the fate of Samson.
The 60 degree triggered a remote memory in my lizard hind brain…
Legionella…
60 degrees is the MINIMUM safe temperature to stop it forming.
But then there is this little detail about electric variety water heaters..
https://www.elgas.com.au/blog/360-legionnaires-disease-from-your-hot-water-tank/#:~:text=50%C2%B0C).-,To%20prevent%20the%20Legionnaires%20Disease%20bacteria%20from%20growing%20in%20your,C%20(140%C2%B0F).
Electric water heaters are more susceptible to Legionella growth because of the ?25°C lower temperatures at the tank bottom.
The growth of the bacteria in hot water tanks is highest between 25°C to 50°C. This is why you should never turn your electric or gas water heater below 60°C (140°F). This is based on the building code and scientific research.
You can catch Legionnaires Disease from inhaling hot water heater droplets. It breeds in warm stationary water between 25°C to 50°C, so don’t turn down a hot water heater, including solar boosters.
Catching Legionnaires disease from a hot water heater is a very serious condition, being a potentially fatal illness. Legionnaires disease bacteria can breed in hot water heater tanks if they are set below 60°C.
The good news is that Legionnaires Disease from hot water heaters is totally preventable.
You need to be informed to protect your family’s health…
…
However, Canadian studies have shown, even when the thermostat is set at 60°C, a high percentage — approximately 40% — of electric water heaters remain contaminated because of the lower temperature, about 30°C to 40°C at the bottom of the tank.
No water heaters using gas were contaminated.
Which leads me to two possibilities
1: The people doing this are idiots, who dont realize this policy is likely to kill some of its citizens as not every HWS thermostat will work perfectly.
2: The people doing this are evil and know this policy is likely to kill some of its citizens as not every HWS thermostat will work perfectly.
Our HWS are limited to 54 deg C. For domestic use. For a while tempering valves were fitted that let in cold water to the outlet of the cylinder. It was set to 52-54 degC. The new gas instantaneous heater I got installed in my holiday house is set for 52 and won’t go any higher.
I wonder if Jason’s awesome virtue signalling gets any airplay in India, Indonesia and China?
https://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/which-countries-are-dumping-the-most-plastic-into-the-ocean/
This inquest belongs with the stories my Aunty told me.
Very good article at the Aussie Speccie.
From one of those wild eyed ‘doctors’ who actually read things.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/09/my-government-turned-me-into-an-antivaxxer/
Now the truth is coming out.
The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced no difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated as the vaccines don’t prevent infection or transmission.
In addition, the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has received more adverse reports in 2021 through June 2022 (18 months) for Covid vaccines than over the past 50 years for all other vaccines combined. This is not simply because of the number of Covid vaccinations.
Around the world there has been a significantly higher rate of reported adverse events and deaths for Covid vaccinations when compared with non-Coid vaccines like measles, polio, and flu vaccines.
And finally, the latest hospital admission statistics do not support the claim that the unvaccinated are more at risk of serious Covid disease, hospitalisation or death.
Just how bad is it? We don’t know. There is no long-term toxicity, carcinogenicity (cancer-causing), genotoxicity (effect on genes), or fertility studies.
This ‘thing’ that we have been doing the past two years, is not healthcare. I don’t know what it is, but it is not healthcare, and it was obvious from the start. It is not benefiting the ‘greater good’. It is not looking after grandma. It is not ‘doing our bit and protecting others’. It is not saving lives.
For the highlighted bit id also add they deliberately tried very hard to avoid recording people who had side effects from the jab.
The 60 degree triggered a remote memory in my lizard hind brain…
Legionella…
60 degrees is the MINIMUM safe temperature to stop it forming.
Worked a treat in QLD nursing homes.
Uncle Roger knows. Asians love single use plastic.
Of course he loved her, but it used to drive him into flights of rage that she didn’t seem to understand how much.
Mornin’ all. Last night we wandered through the old town of Sarajevo.
Mosques everywhere, and one cathedral. This is a Muslim country with a Christian minority. The call to prayer rang out as we returned to the hotel, drifting out on the evening air. The poverty, relative to Croatia next door, is stark. This is the first place we saw beggars. This is as close as the Ottomans came to Europe, being forced back at the Croatian “horseshoe”. And here they remained. Today I’ll be refreshing my memory of the 91-95 war and attempting to gain some insight as to the religious, rather than political aspects – although these are closely entwined.
I’m told we’ll see the fateful spot where Princip shot the Archduke. Over such relatively small actions great conflagrations come. Just ask the baker in the City of London.
From The Spectator Magazine –
“New South Wales is in for an energy nightmare, and it makes no difference whether they vote Labor, Green, or Kean at the next election.
There is a plot underway to ban the purchase of all petrol and diesel cars and outlaw gas connections in new properties.
Too bad, I guess, when the next blackout comes along. I’ll be boiling water on the stove and having a hot dinner – the rest of the state will be staring at the darkness eating a packet of biscuits.
Before we get into the nonsense, I have a question for Labor’s Anthony Albanese.
If cutting our emissions in half by 2030 is the government’s chief priority, why has Labor decided to import 400,000 new people next year? How many services and privileges are the rest of us going to lose in order to maintain our existing standard of living and endure the emissions cut with all these additional ‘carbon units’ wandering around?
No really, Albanese. Are we saving the planet or pushing toward a ‘Big Australia’ which requires ‘Big Infrastructure’ for your union mates?
As far as anyone can determine, the Labor government is deliberately making the quality of life for Australians paper-thin so that we can be comfortably bundled up into a Treasury report.
The nonsense specific to NSW is coming out of the Committee for Sydney thinktank – also known as ‘a collection of people paid to sit around and make everyone’s lives miserable’.
The Decarbonising Sydney report reads more like a guide to return to the stone age:
Sam Kernaghan, the Committee’s Resilience Director, said the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment report (August 2021) had put an intense focus on what a warming world would look like, and the need to accelerate climate action.
‘We still have time, but not much,’ he said.
‘We can’t wait until 2050. We need to set ambitious and optimistic goals for 2030 – goals that show leadership and set the direction.
‘These actions will help Sydney play its part in combating Climate Change, but they’ll also provide benefits to our communities, economy, and environment – from improved air quality to lower household bills and more resilient energy grids that are better able to cope with the extremes of weather that we can expect to face in coming years.’
Utter fantasy. The more ‘green’ our grid goes, the higher our energy costs climb. This is a worldwide pattern that some call ‘teething issues with transition’ but the rest of name as ‘a permanent flaw’ that is opening like the Mariana Trench beneath our feet.
The Sydney Committee’s plan is to funnel as much money as possible into the billionaire renewables barons. If their business model is so successful, why are the increasingly poor public paying for it?
Why hasn’t anyone asked the Committee what they plan to do about global shortages of raw materials that currently prohibit the creation of their energy dreams?
It’s almost like the ‘thinktank’ didn’t ‘think’ about any of the real-world practicalities and instead prefers to prattle off dangerous idiocy from their gilded city cages without having any clue that their comfort comes off the back of coal, oil, and gas.
Their plan (if you can call it that) is to halve Sydney’s emissions by 2030. We could probably achieve that by putting a stop on the flight plans and unnecessary mansions of Sydney’s richest businessmen and politicians, but in a ‘do as I say, not as I do’ reality, only the peasants will suffer.
Banning gas to households is stupid and petty. The government is not doing it to ‘save the planet’ – they are doing it because they desperately need the gas reserves to prop up their failing renewables grid. They don’t want to come out and say that because it involves admitting that solar and wind require fossil fuels to work.
If politicians opened a few nuclear plants, citizens could have as much cheap gas as they wanted, instead, panic is setting on the energy industry as unreliable renewables shake grid stability to its core.
If you do any sort of real work in this country, banning petrol and diesel cars is going to be a catastrophe. The state government wants vehicles sales to be 100 per cent EV, but as of 2021, there were only around 10,000 in the whole state (because no one wants them).
As pointed out earlier, the world doesn’t have the resources to build these cars and Australia doesn’t have the power grid to charge them.
At the same time, NSW is pushing for solar on homes made from the same limited resources that EVs require. The natural consequence is what we are already seeing around the world – huge price increases in EVs and renwables. Their costs are growing in tandem and they have no price ceiling as resources dry up.
Owning your own car is soon to become a fantasy for the middle and working classes.
The report says as much. One of their priorities is a ‘shift to car-sharing’ that says:
‘In the future [of Sydney] people are going to use a car when they need one without having to own one. Car-sharing (as represented today by companies like GoGet) and ride-sharing (as represented today by companies like Uber) are the early examples. As the vehicle fleet evolves toward autonomous electric cars; it’s simply not going to make sense for people to own their own cars when they can summon one to get where they want to be at any time. The net result will be a massive gain of urban space as all of the street space and garages can be converted to new uses. Sydney should do everything in its power to support this transition.’
They also want to see a ‘dynamic road pricing plan’ to make your trip to the city even more unaffordable.
This will make the eco-fascists happy. Their goal is not to facilitate a green ‘change’ to our transport sector, it’s to strip cars away from the population to improve their Net Zero goals. While those penning these thinktank travesties live in the middle of the cities, half a block from civilisation, everyone else in the country is going to have to go out and find themselves a horse and cart – that is, provided you’re still allowed to own farm animals.
Where is the Liberal government? They are supposed to protect the people from this kind of selfish, reckless, bureaucratic garbage.
If you are wondering where all of this comes from, Kernaghan, the man behind the virtuous plan, worked with the Chief Resilience Officers ‘across Australia, New Zealand and across Asia to develop and implement comprehensive city resilience strategies as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities Network’.
Most of the links for the 100 Resilient Cities Network no longer go anywhere, with their webpages long-dead, just like our cities will be if we keep pursuing the thought bubbles of Utopian ideologues.”
This is as close as the Ottomans came to Europe, being forced back at the Croatian “horseshoe”. And here they remained.
They got closer than that –
The Battle of Vienna took place at Kahlenberg Mountain near Vienna on 12 September 1683 after the imperial city had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months.
The report on the NT inquest posted by Zulu Kilo Two Alpha at 3:01 pm is amazing, isn’t it? Dr Dwyer SC (for a PhD she is) bends over backwards to excuse Walker’s habitual and severe domestic violence. Could anyone imagine her doing that for a white man?
Meanwhile, the big stop-the-presses news for the day from the ABC: Peppa Pig to feature a same-sex couple as parents!
Why an I left with the impression that the inquest is trying to re – invent Walker as the cheeky young Indigenous lad, proud of his heritage, the product of a loving, close knit family who liked the bush, and the lifestyle, and was brutally slain by the agents of the colonial power? As for harking back to the Coniston Waters massacre, get a life!!!!!
Nice Mr Erdogan has been getting itchy fingers again lately.
Greece warns another European war could be on the horizon as Turkey hints at the possibility of an invasion (8 Sep)
Well he certainly chose an appropriate city to warn about history. Looks like he just missed you Calli!
Yes. The Croatians like to think they were the last holdouts. I did not like to contradict our guide.
Naturally there will be those on this blog who know more.
GreyRangasays:
September 8, 2022 at 3:55 pm
Our HWS are limited to 54 deg C. For domestic use. For a while tempering valves were fitted that let in cold water to the outlet of the cylinder. It was set to 52-54 degC. The new gas instantaneous heater I got installed in my holiday house is set for 52 and won’t go any higher.
We have 2 Gas Hot Water Systems both Rheem – the Original one was installed for Extension in 80s and no temp limiter – hot water instantly – the 2nd early 00s was when original 1947 Ceiling Off Peak Electric Tank system gave up the Ghost and has thermostat control – have to waste water to get hot water finally flowing and not as hot as old system – Wife takes Water from our new internal laundry on Old HWS to kitchen sink, short walk as off kitchen, to get hotter water for hand washing up when not using dishwasher
Called Progress – I call it Nannyism
Perhaps there is a difference between an invader who got beaten back quickly and one who was successful enough to stay several hundred years.
Turkey’s **only** got inflation rates rising at ~80% so a war might sort that out…
‘They Are Getting Ready for Trump’s Second Term’: Former Pentagon Brass Encourage Military to Disobey Orders
In an ominous open letter published on wonky national security site War on the Rocks Tuesday, eight former secretaries of defense and five former chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff warned of what they call an “exceptionally challenging civil-military environment” developing in the United States that apparently concerned them enough to publish their thoughts ahead of November’s consequential midterm elections. Never mind, apparently, that the signatories were at the helm of the U.S. military for the better part of the last two decades during which that “environment” was degraded.
Citing “extreme strain” to “[m]any of the factors that shape civil-military relations” in “recent years,” the letter points to “the winding down of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the ramping up of great power conflict” while alluding to the fact that last August’s withdrawal from Afghanistan — and fresh chaos in Iraq — mean that “the U.S. military must simultaneously come to terms with wars that ended without all the goals satisfactorily accomplished while preparing for more daunting competition with near-peer rivals.”
The letter also not-so-subtly refers to “the divisiveness of affective polarization that culminated in the first election in over a century when the peaceful transfer of political power was disrupted and in doubt” as a reason “military professionals confront an extremely adverse environment.”
“Looking ahead, all of these factors could well get worse before they get better,” the former Pentagon officials warn. “In such an environment, it is helpful to review the core principles and best practices by which civilian and military professionals have conducted healthy American civil-military relations in the past — and can continue to do so, if vigilant and mindful.”
What follows are 16 enumerated “best practices” that deal with the chain of command, political pressure, and civilian control of the U.S. military, all signed by former Pentagon brass including Ash Carter, Mark Esper, Bob Gates, Chuck Hagel, Jim Mattis, Leon Panetta, Martin Dempsey, Joseph Dunford, and Peter Pace.
Whether the former officials are looking backward at the 2020 election or ahead at the 2024 election, their letter dives into the military’s responsibilities during a presidential election year:
During presidential elections, the military has a dual obligation. First, because the Constitution provides for only one commander-in chief at a time, the military must assist the current commander-in-chief in the exercise of his or her constitutional duty to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. Second, because the voters (not the military) decide who will be commander-in-chief, they must prepare for whomever the voters pick — whether a reelected incumbent or someone new. This dual obligation reinforces the importance of the principles and best practices described above.
The only thing that’s missing from the bulleted manifesto-y letter about the military’s “best practices” is an explanation for why it was written. Is it more (very delayed) fallout from January 6? A response to President Joe Biden’s use of Marine guards as staging for his angry and divisive speech in Philadelphia in which he declared war on Republicans? A warning of things yet to come?
Speaking with Townhall, Former Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense Amber Smith
“Additionally, those who penned this letter are complicit with the deterioration of trust and the breakdown in the relationship between the military and civilians they speak of,” Smith also noted. “They are essentially raising the alarm for an environment they helped create.”
Then there’s the matter of the signers’ decision to chime in on politics, invoke the events of January 6, and talk about presidential elections.
Johnny Rottensays:
September 8, 2022 at 4:35 pm
[This is as close as the Ottomans came to Europe, being forced back at the Croatian “horseshoe”. And here they remained.]
They got closer than that –
The Battle of Vienna took place at Kahlenberg Mountain near Vienna on 12 September 1683 after the imperial city had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months.
Yes indeed, the battle at the gates of Vienna.
King John III Sobieski and friends.
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Liberals in Victoria have an ad on YouTube with a gentleman slamming Labor over the death of his dad because of ambulance delays.
Negative campaigning is back.
Today I was issued with a 14 day notice that the rental property that I live in is to be sold. If the buyer decides to live in the property I will be given 60 days to vacate, after the sale goes through.
I live in Victoria.
Seeing this as a sign, I am thinking of moving interstate. WA was once an option. Queensland is another as I have a brother in Brisbane. I love the river country of NSW but wonder about employment and rentals. South Australia should be nuked from orbit. Tasmania is too cold, although beautiful. The Territory is unknown to me.
Good Cats, your input would be interesting and dare I say it, amusing. Where for should I relocate to? Your thoughts please.
And thank you.
PS. I also have the option of going to the United Kingdom or Florida USA, but love Australia too much.
DemoCraps: A Killer on Every Block and Two Rapists in Every Backyard
Ann Coulter
The country is experiencing an historic surge in violent crime, and the link between Democratic policies and the crime wave is more firmly established than the law of gravity.
Republicans — are you guys awake?
This week, the Democrats and their auxiliary staff in the media gave less attention to the grisly kidnapping and murder of Eliza Fletcher than they did to two black girls allegedly snubbed by a performer in a Muppet costume a couple of months ago.
Fletcher, a 34-year-old hardware heiress, kindergarten teacher and married mother of two, was out for an early morning run near the University of Memphis campus on Friday when a 38-year-old career criminal, Cleotha Abston, leapt out of his SUV and dragged her, kicking and screaming, into the passenger side of his vehicle.
Based on copious evidence, including video and DNA, police arrested Abston almost immediately. His career highlights include a lengthy juvenile record: theft, aggravated assault, aggravated assault with a weapon and rape — as well as the violent kidnapping of a prominent attorney, whom he drove around in the trunk of his car for hours, looking for ATMs.
But Abston refused to tell police what he had done with Fletcher.
On Tuesday, police announced they’d found her body. Big story, right? MSNBC cut away from the press conference on this abduction-murder about four minutes in. The New York Times put the story on page A-20.